Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760461Ab2FDNIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:08:04 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:41305 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760012Ab2FDNIB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:08:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:07:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Jan Kiszka cc: Avi Kivity , Alex Williamson , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "mtosatti@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "yongjie.ren@intel.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Use IRQF_ONESHOT for assigned device MSI interrupts In-Reply-To: <4FCC9EAC.9090007@siemens.com> Message-ID: References: <20120601161521.26935.25606.stgit@bling.home> <4FC8F042.5050600@siemens.com> <1338570192.23475.25.camel@bling.home> <4FC8F867.7080103@siemens.com> <1338573558.23475.41.camel@bling.home> <4FC90961.8030701@siemens.com> <4FCB2359.9020505@redhat.com> <4FCC9EAC.9090007@siemens.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 26 On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2012-06-04 13:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > So this shortcut requires some checks before being applied to a specific > MSI/MSI-X vector. > > > Taking KVM aside, my general question remains if threaded MSI handlers > of all devices really need to apply IRQF_ONESHOT though they should have > no use for it. In theory no, but we had more than one incident, where threaded irqs w/o a primary handler and w/o IRQF_ONEHSOT lead to full system starvation. Linus requested this sanity check and I think it's sane and required. In fact it's a non issue for MSI. MSI uses handle_edge_irq which does not mask the interrupt. IRQF_ONESHOT is a noop for that flow handler. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/